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Miljen Mikic
Miljen Mikic

Reputation: 15261

How to run ASP.NET Core Web application on Linux?

I have an ASP.NET Web application that was successfully running on Linux with the help of dnx-mono NuGet package. I used to publish it by using dnx publish tool and run it with the command:

/opt/dnx-mono.1.0.0-rc1-update1/bin/dnx --appbase /path/to/json Microsoft.Dnx.ApplicationHost kestrel

Since dnx is obsolete, I want to get rid of it and migrate to .NET Core, but it does not work anymore on Linux.

Important: I cannot make my application .NET Core app because it uses some libraries (like MySQL.Data) that are still not available for .NET Core. Therefore, I create ASP.NET Core Web Application (notice .NET Framework):

enter image description here I migrated the whole application and run it successfully on Windows, but my target is Linux. No more dnx publish, no problem - there is dotnet publish which works well and produces binaries. What now? Dnx-mono package does not have a "dotnet-something" successor, and using dotnet command with published binaries produced errors that I was not able to resolve (The library 'libhostpolicy.so' required to execute the application was not found), but I don't think that I should even use dotnet command with standalone binaries. Googling didn't help as most tutorials are focused around ASP.NET Web applications for .NET Core, not for .NET Framework. Version of Linux is Debian 8, dotnet command was obtained by following this guide. Any clue?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1657

Answers (1)

DavidG
DavidG

Reputation: 119136

You cannot run an application on Linux that targets the full .Net Framework, it has to be Core only.

Upvotes: 2

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